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Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit" (connect.mozilla.org)

Orbit is an LLM addon/extension for Firefox that runs on the Mistral 7B model. It can summarize a given webpage, YouTube videos and so on. You can ask it questions about stuff that’s on the page. It is very privacy friendly and does not require any account to sign up....

reddig33 ,

I’m just glad it’s an add on/extension. A lot of the crap baked into browsers these days is just bloat nobody wants or uses.

reddig33 ,

We used to have home refrigerators kept cold by ammonia. There’s a reason we don’t use those anymore.

reddig33 ,

Is Redwood Materials shipping things overseas? They seem to be the big car battery recycler the automakers are signing up with.

reddig33 ,

That photo looks like CGI.

reddig33 ,

They’d have more paying subscribers if they didn’t charge more than Netflix for what amounts to user-generated content that they’re getting for free.

reddig33 ,

What are they trying to accomplish with this disinfo? It’s bizarre.

reddig33 ,

In Austin, most grocery stores switched to paper and sold canvas when we had our ban. Only Texas’ beloved H‑E‑B decided to sell thick plastic replacement bags and has continued to do so post-ban. Hopefully the California law counts these stupid thick bags as plastic in their ban.

reddig33 ,

At the least the garbage bag could be made of biodegradable or plant-based plastic.

reddig33 ,

Seems like a bad idea to point this out. You’re just giving more ammo to conservatives and media conglomerates that this hurts business and is “socialism”.

reddig33 ,

Someone’s not getting re-elected.

reddig33 ,

Can we stop with the megamergers and buyouts please?

reddig33 ,

This isn’t oniony. It’s just great news.

reddig33 ,

Three mile island is outdated tech.

reddig33 , (edited )

There is nothing clean or safe about three mile island. The place had a meltdown and created tons of nuclear waste. Next you’ll be trying to tell me Fukushima and Chernobyl were safe, clean, and cheap.

Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands. (www.cnbc.com)

Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear accident in US history. Was mainly caused by poor design of human feedback systems which caused operational confusion and lead to a catastrophic failure.

reddig33 ,

Three mile island certainly gave off pollution. Scientists are studying if people downwind of it ended up getting thyroid cancer as a result.

whyy.org/…/thyroid-cancer-study-re-ignites-debate…

reddig33 ,

In the US, the Marathon branding was used for a 12” long caramel braid covered in chocolate. The marketing was that it was so big, it would take a long time and a lot of effort to finish (like running a marathon). If I recall correctly, the packaging even had a ruler printed on the back of the wrapper.

thedailymeal.com/…/why-marathon-mars-bars-discont…

reddig33 ,

whyy.org/…/thyroid-cancer-study-re-ignites-debate…

reddig33 ,

Just wanted to say how much I appreciate your “canon connections” posts!

reddig33 ,

Because they’re morons?

reddig33 ,

That probably wouldn’t hold up in court.

reddig33 ,

We already have compostable straws made from plant-based plastics.

reddig33 , (edited )

Ironically, Buffet has long been a proponent of taxing the rich.

money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/…/index.html

snopes.com/…/warren-buffett-billionaires-taxes/

reddig33 ,

Gotta sell more video cards!

US satellite-TV providers DirecTV and Dish are in talks to merge again, source says (www.reuters.com)

elecom operator AT&T (T.N), opens new tab and its joint-venture partner TPG (TPG.O), opens new tab are in early-stage talks to merge their DirecTV satellite TV service with EchoStar (SATS.O), opens new tab owned Dish, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday....

reddig33 ,

So after they merge, who owns the business — AT&T?

reddig33 ,

If you buy an electric mower, you never have to change the oil again. Or the spark plug. Or buy gas. Or clean the carburetor.

reddig33 , (edited )

I don’t see how this is any different then standing behind someone who is typing and watching them type on a physical keyboard. If you allow someone to see you typing, there’s no security involved there.

That said, there should be an option (if there’s not one already) to turn off the creepy external googly eyes feature.

reddig33 ,

It would be nice if at the very least the app stores wouldn’t bother posting the rip off versions.

reddig33 ,

Gee, I wonder why? What an unexpected Coincidence!

/s

reddig33 ,

Someone is jealous that another woman is getting Trump’s attention.

reddig33 , (edited )

Stop buying crap from China. You never know how poisonous it is, or if it’s made by slave labor. There’s a reason it’s cheap.

lemonde.fr/…/shein-and-temu-products-found-to-con…

reddig33 , (edited )

There was a time when these were built by Jeep/AMC motors. People used to buy these used at auction and drive them after they were retired. And electric delivery vehicles are already built by companies like Rivian and Ford, though I don’t know what the cost difference is.

I would think building a “bespoke” vehicle for USPS would result in more expensive service parts. But I don’t know what kind of service contracts are included with these.

reddig33 ,

Yes, and before that they were a general jeep vehicle built by built by Jeep/AMC. They sold the contract to LTV in 1980.

onallcylinders.com/…/neither-snow-nor-rain-a-brie…

reddig33 ,

What made this happen? Shitty programming stuffed to the gills with unnecessary frameworks, JavaScript tracking nonsense and code spread among multiple servers all trying to render a simple grid of video thumbnails.

I don’t blame the programmers as much as the marketing droids that have ruined the internet at this point.

reddig33 ,

Is this one of the leftover rides from Action Park?

reddig33 ,

How much water does it normally take to put out a semi fire? Say a tire fire, engine fire, or the entire contents of a semi in flames? I couldn’t find the answer googling, but I did find that combustion engine semis burn at the rate of 7000 per year.

plattner-verderame.com/…/the-dangers-of-truck-fir…

reddig33 , (edited )
  1. A great deal of electricity is produced by renewables these days, and that percentage increases every day.

www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48896

ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/…/ddn-20240221-1

  1. There’s plenty of lithium. Lithium batteries are also recyclable, unlike fossil fuels.

sustainabilitybynumbers.com/…/lithium-electric-ve…

  1. Sodium ion batteries are also a thing.
reddig33 ,

But are you wise?

reddig33 ,

How is this “oniony”?

reddig33 ,

Reminds me of ICANN fucking up all the domain names.

CocaCola.com CocaCola.new CocaCola.drink Cocacola.world CocaCola.bev

Etc.

Shameful. One thing that might work for the fediverse is federal institutions running their own Mastadon instances on .gov to move away from announcements on Twitter. You can’t fake .gov domains.

reddig33 ,

I never understood chiclet or Mylar keyboards. A cost cutting measure that pretty much makes the product unusable for anything but playing games.

reddig33 ,

Watching the pre-show and evidently there’s a new TV show with Don Johnson coming. The commercial has me wondering how many times people can sample Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love”.

reddig33 ,

ABC is just letting Trump ramble now.

reddig33 ,

Did Kamala leave? Because I’m just seeing ABC let Trump talk all he wants.

reddig33 ,

That’s easy to do when they mute her mic but don’t mute his.

reddig33 ,

It’s corporate media. Their mission is to create sound bites to play on the evening news later.

reddig33 ,

“Undecided” voters are just people who are too ashamed to admit they’re going to vote for Trump.

reddig33 ,

Gee, should I vote for Hitler, or not Hitler? I just can’t decide!

reddig33 ,

I can actually see the value in a trifold like the one pictured. In your pocket it’s a phone. When you unfold it, it’s an iPad. You’re consolidating devices.

That said, I’m not a fan of folding lcd screen tech used today. It creases. I’d rather see three separate bezel-less screens that magnetically join to make a larger surface.

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